Month: April 2011

Let’s say, just for the sake of saying it, that you have been working meticulously on a blog post. The subject is Men and Needlework during the 17th Century. You have been sweating over this post. You have tried to balance it between being too short and too long. You have avoided using too much… Continue reading Five reasons why being awesome is not awesome enough

Sometimes in life, we figure something out without realizing it. Then we go through a phase where we think, “Oh, hey, that’s accomplishing this thing over here. Wow, neat.” Then we realize that actually, this could be super helpful to lots of other people. It is this exact scenario that leads me to our engagement… Continue reading The greatest key to Twitter engagement

Since I’ve been blogging, I’ve had a fair number of people ask me to take a look at their blog sites. There are usually a few things that I look for as potential problems when I’m asked to do this kind of analysis. I’ve come up with 15 of these bloggy growth stoppers, in fact.… Continue reading 15 reasons why your blog is not growing

Take a moment and think about all of the people in your life. I mean all of them. Sure, there’s your family. Then your brain is probably moving to your close friends. Now you’re thinking about your friends with whom you aren’t as close. Let’s dig deeper. The person you see on a regular basis… Continue reading There’s no time to take people for granted

I’d like to try something a bit different with Tweetdiner. We’ve been having really good conversations lately, but after each one, there’s kind of a gap. We don’t follow up and then we start a whole brand new topic the next week. I thought it might be fun to schedule a series of chats that… Continue reading TweetDiner: How to build your brand online